Underrepresentation.  Within our media. Within the groups that create our media.  One story being told over and over- and it isn't even a full one.  Our overlapping lives aren't being presented as overlapping, but rather are shown as very separate and some even shown as irrelevant. Some aren't even shown.  We are so impressionable when it comes to media- it becomes what we identify with. For me this comes through books. I was reviewing my childhood books the other day after we had a lecture on what "readers" look like. I took a mental inventory of the books I had been raised on, but also a mental inventory of how they raised me.  Myopically. These stories were just that- a singular representation of how I had grown to see the world. I learned that I didn't have as wide of a scope as I had thought, and noted the danger in such a viewpoint. I found that not only is underrepresentation prevalent in my media, but also with those who had made it (graphs below)....